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Jason Crowe Jr. scored 34 points Monday night to break Missouri’s freshman single-game scoring record in a 96-58 win over SIU Edwardsville.
The mark had belonged to Derrick Chievous since 1984.
Three nights after missing 15 of his 18 shots against Saint Louis, Crowe went into halftime at Mizzou Arena with 22 points. The Cougars had 24.
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Missouri needed Crowe early.
Mark Mitchell, the Tigers’ assists leader and second-leading scorer entering the game, took a hit to the face on their second possession and never returned. Crowe made his first attempt from 3-point range and had nearly half of Missouri’s points by the time the Tigers took a 48-24 lead into the locker room.
Crowe was coming off a tough shooting night Friday, where he only scored eight points in a loss to Saint Louis. Even on a night when his shot kept missing, he found teammates for a team-high seven assists.
On Monday, Missouri coach Dennis Gates saw a difference in the shots his freshman guard was taking.
“I think the most important part is his degree of difficulty went down on some of his shots at the rim,” Gates said after the win. Crowe made seven of his eight attempts inside the arc against SIU Edwardsville. The last of those seven put his name in the record book.
With 8:35 remaining, Crowe made a 3-pointer through a foul and sank the free throw to reach 32 points. That tied the mark Chievous set against Arizona on Dec. 29, 1984, on his way to becoming Missouri’s career scoring leader with 2,580 points.
With 4:02 left, Crowe drove through traffic for the layup that gave him the record outright.
Fellow freshman Toni Bryant gave the Tigers another option around the basket and from the corners, where he made both of his 3-point attempts. Bryant finished with 18 points and seven rebounds.
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Together, the two freshmen scored 52 points on 17-of-24 shooting as Missouri improved to 2-1. Crowe added four assists and made eight of nine free throws in 32 minutes.
Marquette visits Columbia on Sunday for Crowe’s fourth college game.
Crowe scored 23 against Cleveland State in his Mizzou Arena debut, matching the best first game by a freshman in school history.
Six days later, he drove through traffic for the layup that gave him 34 points and broke a record Derrick Chievous had held since 1984
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